Nijūgomanbun no ichi Papua-tō Sepikku-gawa ryūiki zu [cartographic material]
二十五万分一「パプア島」セピック河流域図 [cartographic material]
- Bib ID:
- 4400142
- Format:
- Map
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Scale:
- Scale 1:250,000 (E 141°00'--E 145°00'/S 3°10'--S 5°00')
- Description:
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- [Tokyo] : Sanbō Honbu, [1943 printing]
- [Tokyo] : 参謀本部, [1943 printing]
- 1 map on 4 sheets : col. ; 90.8 x 119 cm. on sheets 99.8 x 70.7 cm.
- Series:
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- Japan. Rikugun. Sanbō Honbu. Near Papua and Biak Island 1:250,000 map series
- Japanese military mapping of Indonesia, New Guinea and the southwest Pacific Area
- Notes:
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- Original map is titled ' Der Sepik' and made by Walter Behrmann
- Japanese facsimile reproduction in 4 sheets of a 3-sheet German topographic map of northern Papua New Guinea. The map traces the rise of the Sepik River and its journey to the eastern shore of what was then German New Guinea [now part of Papua New Guinea]. Relief shown by form lines and spot heights.
- "Made & issued in Aug. 1943"--In Japanese.
- "Secret"--In Japanese.
- German map originally published on 3 sheets in: Der Sepik (Kaiserin-Augusta-Fluss) und sein Stromgebeit : geographischer Bericht der Kaiserin-Augusta-Fluss-Expedition, 1912-13 auf der Insel Neuguinea / von Walter Behrmann. Berlin : Ernst Siegfried Mittler, 1917.
- National Library of Australia holds only sheets 1 and 4 (corresponding to part of sheet 3, and sheet 1, of the German originals).
- Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1241991567
- Text and placenames on map are in German ; bibliographic information in Japanese.
- Subject:
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- World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, Japanese -- Indonesia and Papua New Guinea -- Sepik River -- Maps
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, Japanese -- Papua New Guinea -- Maps
- Sepik River (Indonesia and Papua New Guinea) -- Maps
- New Guinea (Territory) -- Description and travel
- Papua New Guinea -- Maps
- Time Coverage:
- 1913
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
-
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Since 1942
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1917
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1943
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